By Janet Walsh, Special to CNN Editor's note: Janet Walsh is the deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Women's Rights division. You can follow her on Twitter: @JanetHRW. The views expressed are her own. "If I looked nice, he hit me," Ana L., a mother of five in Colombia, told me. Ana (not her real name) [...]

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